SORRY THIS SPOILER COMES STRAIT FROM
www.survivorsucks.com
We've received some very interesting information from SurvivorSucks.com
Message Board poster flutiefan227. This news is similar to last season's
CAPLOCK Gervase X "spoiler," which was also first posted on our Survivor Message
Board.
flutiefan227, ever the good sleuth, was poking around on CBS's Survivor Web
site. (Does this sound familiar to anyone?) When viewing the source code for
the Final Words Page and the Chat Archive Page, there's evidence that CBS's
Web designers might have been a little careless.
Specifically, they have imbedded hidden placeholders for the remaining castaways
(those not yet voted out) in the HTML code. There are seven of nine castaway
names hidden in the code. The missing two? Amber and Elisabeth. Why would
these two not need placeholders? Some suspect it's because they are the Final
Two, and have no need for them.
We have since gone to the CBS Web site and verified that the information is true:
flutiefan227's report is accurate. Here's the HTML code in text form for
verification:
Final Words HTML Code
Chat Archive HTML Code
If you look at the code, you'll notice a couple of interesting points. First, the
Final Words Code. Everyone is listed except for Amber and Elisabeth. Those
already voted off, Jeff, Michael*, Kimmi, Mitchell, Maralyn, Kel, and Debb, are
outwardly visible on the Final Words Page, with links to the text and a video of
their Final Words. Hidden in the code, we find those yet to be voted off, minus
Amber and Elisabeth. They are Alicia, Colby, Jerri, Keith, Nick, Rodger, and
Tina. These seven are listed in the code in alphabetical order. If you'd like to
verify this for yourself, view the Final Words Code. It is important to note that the
placeholders for these seven will be "commented out," signified by "<!--" before
their info, and "-->" after their code. These HTML comment tags hide the
information from your browser. It's still there, it just doesn't get displayed. It is
also important to note that this hidden list only appears in this week's pages -
Week Seven. In prior weeks, the remaining castaways are not hidden in the
code, and no one has a placeholder.
Similarly, we have the Chat Archive Code, with one major difference. On this
page, Jeff is still hidden in the code with the other seven remaining castaways, as
his chat has not yet occurred - only the first six voted out who have completed
their chat sessions are outwardly visible on the Chat Archive Page. Jeff, like the
others who are hidden, is listed in alphabetical order. Again, Amber and
Elisabeth are nowhere to be found in the code - they have no placeholders. As
with the Final Words page, this is the first week that has the hidden placeholders.
Now comes the important part: What does this mean, if anything?
The Web designers created the pages in question with the hidden code so that
they merely have to "unhide" the code after each contestant is booted to update
the page. You do your work all at once up front, and making updates is very
simple. But why are Amber and Elisabeth missing? We have several thoughts on
the subject, starting with the obvious. Amber and Elisabeth's missing
placeholders could mean that they won't have final comments or chats because
they are the Final Two. Or it could mean that the CBS Web designers just
accidentally left Amber and Elisabeth off of the pages. Or it could mean that
Mark Burnett is screwing with us. We suspect it's the last.
Scenario One - The Final Two
Suppose Amber and Elisabeth are the Final Two. For this to be true, we have to
assume that the CBS Web designers know the outcome of the game two months
in advance. Not only that, but they would have to be incredibly careless with the
information, tipping their hand in the HTML code that they know is readily
available to ANYONE with a Web browser. We're all well aware of last season's
Gervase X brouhaha, and so are they. It simply doesn't make sense that they
would be this careless.
Scenario Two - Web Designer Oversight
This theory holds that the CBS Web designers created several placeholders, but
left off Amber and Elisabeth as a simple mistake. This could be the case, but it
was done not once, but twice. And this is not a case of the Web designers
possibly making a mistake once, and then duplicating the mistake on another
page: the placeholder HTML differs greatly from the Final Words Code to the Chat
Archive Code. These pages were obviously coded independently with both
Amber and Elisabeth missing. That leads us to believe that this was not a
simple oversight, as Gervase X most likely was.
Scenario Three - Mark Burnett is the Devil
There are several reasons that we lean in this direction - and it's not just that
we're paranoid. (Or is it?) The unlikelihood of the first two scenarios weighs
heavily. The Web designers don't need to know this information this soon, and
they wouldn't be that careless after Gervase X. Also, the omission of Amber and
Elisabeth was coded two separate times, so an oversight is unlikely. But beyond
that, we have telling quotes from Mark Burnett. He has stated numerous times
that he is actively trying to deceive us in our unending quest for the next
bootee. He has claimed that numerous traps have been laid, and yet we've
found none - only a lack of information. And now, suddenly, at the CBS Survivor
Web site, where we last found our "spoiler of the season," we been given a gift -
the Final Two. It just seems a bit too convenient for us. We believe this "spoiler"
is tainted evidence, actively planted at the behest of Mark Burnett.
Ultimately, whether this turns out to be true or not is of little consequence.
Everyone who is going to watch Survivor will watch, regardless of this "news." And
the majority of us skeptics will watch just to see it proven wrong, so we can claim
"we knew it was fake all along." If, on the outside chance, this proves to be true,
then it's a colossal blunder, both on the part of Mark Burnett and the CBS Web
designers. But we've been playing cat and mouse with them long enough to
suspect that they're not that dumb...